Long before there was a Sen. Ted Cruz filibustering Obamacare on the Senate floor or a Sen. Rand Paul demanding answers on government drone policy, Sen. Jeff Sessions was holding the Senate floor for hours on end, espousing classic tea party stances against higher spending and expanding presidential powers. [...]

Reps. Michele Bachmann, Steve King — from Iowa, not New York — and Louie Gohmert made a hush-hush trip to the Middle East this week, flying commercial into high-profile danger zones like Beirut, Cairo and Tripli, attending embassy briefings but declining to release information. [...]

President Obama on Saturday again tried to turn attention away from his troubled health-care reform law and to other issues, while also placing the blame for Washington dysfunction and gridlock squarely on the shoulders of “a reckless few” — a clear shot at tea party Republicans in the House. [...]

In opposing Obamacare, the Tea Party took a position that increasing numbers of Americans agree with, now that Obamacare’s potential for disaster is becoming clearer by the day. But in trying to defund Obamacare without the congressional votes to do so, the Tea Party made a major tactical mistake. [...]

Something like a standard interpretation of last week's elections has now emerged: The country has taken a baby step to the left, the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party has been weakened, and Regular Republicans - pro-business and pro-establishment - are finally fighting back. [...]

In The Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore interviews Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks, Amy Kramer of Tea Party Express and Jenny Martin of Tea Party Patriots. The three unrepentant veterans of the shutdown brawl say they're for eager primary election fights with a goal of remaking the GOP. [...]

This Sunday, November 03, 2013, is the third annual National Remembrance Day for those killed by illegal aliens.
"Dear President Obama,
Millions of American citizens and legal immigrants are killed, maimed and otherwise victimized by illegal alien criminals every year. This unnecessary harm to Americans is perpetuated by the failure of the federal government to enforce our nation's immigration and employment laws. And the toll on our citizens will continue to grow so long as you ignore your [...]

Despite press chatter of a civil war, there’s no evidence big business has divorced the GOP or Tea Party.
The current conventional wisdom floating around the media, seemingly extrapolated largely from quotes to the press from businessmen and their surrogates, is that “Big Business [is] trying to unseat the Tea Party.” However, there’s no evidence that this is happening. [...]

The conventional wisdom is wrong. The mainstream media — and their parrots in the Republican establishment — are claiming that President Barack Obama decisively won the government shutdown battle. [...]